Isabel Allende on Immigration, Loss and Her New Novel | Amanpour and Company

[@juancarlossaavedra4505]

I'm proud to be a Chilean because of Isabel Allende and her literature

[@adlerfg]

Wonderful interview. It reminds me of why I love her books so much. Perfect, short answers to complicated questions.

[@gabrielcortez26]

I have just watched another interview of Isabel Allende with David Epstein on her book "A Long Petal of The Sea", dated January 2020. I couldn't stop watching and listening to this amazing woman, telling it like it is. Her transparency is captivating. And I really enjoyed her talking like the voice of a writer reading her own book. If she can master magic realism is because she have mastered the reality of her own life. One of her many impressive observations touched me so deeply! This is about the tragedy of the immigrant. You miss home. But home, as you remember it, doesn't exist anymore. I left Chile on a very particular date. I landed on the Toronto airport on September 11, 1986. That was 35 years ago, when I was 38. Feeling lost in that airport, on a rainy morning, with wife and a one year old daughter. I had to work hard to stop thinking about the people and the land I had left behind. I remember that after settling, with job and home, I would still talk in my mind to my father. I wanted to feel that he was with me. I would be walking the streets of this big city and explaining to my father the area and sharing with him the information about buildings and other landmarks that were around "us". All this in my mind. Because I was feeling alone. But then, years later, I had mi first 12 hours trip back home. Then, not very soon, another vacation to see parents, relatives and friends. It didn't take me too long to realize that I was an immigrant in Canada and, on the other hand, the country I had left didn't exist anymore. I was moving and aging in one direction, strongly based in the culture and values that I had when I left my country. But that country had changed. The new generation had moved in different direction and values. The language was different. The styles were different. The interests were different. The only thing that survived were the strings of love and affection with relatives and friends that are still the objects of my nostalgic feelings. It is mostly those siblings, relatives and friends that are about my age, those I can really understand and those who can probably understand me too. The ones that allow me to taste the flavor of those years when my life, my values and my home, where all in the same place. I can really relate to her experience: once you leave your country, you become an immigrant for the rest of your life. And a foreign if you go back home.

[@chrissomoza6791]

I think that she talks about adapting to your new home, new people and new ways of thinking. Chile in the 80s was a poor backward country, now it’s cosmopolitan with respect for human rights. Women, lgbt and natives. But let’s hope the social progress doesn’t undue the economic.

[@RiaSwiftHealing]

Walter is an excellent interviewer. He knows when to ask/talk and when to listen. Wonderful interview. He got the most out of Allende. Wonderful program.

[@vkng_drag0n982]

She is an absolute treasure. I'm glad she is still writing and if Chile don't want their own people, is their loss.

[@psgdr06]

I can’t wait to read her books ! Great interview! She is intelligent, beautiful and brave lady.

[@phyncke]

Loved this book and really enjoyed this interview! Well done!

[@Carol-dg7ww]

she is amazing, i admire her

[@hanforde]

my favourite author, ive read so many of her books and loved them all, always dreading the end.. such a beautiful writer with so much soul, i couldnt pick a favourite, maybe ines of my soul, a long petal of the sea was beautiful, with a quote from pablo neruda at the start of each chapter.. what an amazing woman x

[@golfmesavillage]

Love this interview. Love PBS.

[@gabrielapataro8725]

My favorite Latin American author ❤️

[@sashaleem]

Gracias por todo, Isabel. ♡

[@dorandacolbert5973]

"I just remind people of what they have inside." Sounds like RealTalk to me.

[@stanhootzz1904]

..................This HEART~Love's yer work Isabel!

[@pilargonzalez8442]

My favorite writer on the planet 💕 Diosa hermosa y tan Mujer ❤‍🔥

[@patriciaperreault6728]

She’s amazing and brilliant !

[@lindascanlan6317]

I'm reading her current book - "Soul of a Woman" she's fantastic...

[@rosemacaskie]

As to other countries getting rich, when I was a child, before Thatchers time, people felt that as more and more countries became wellfare state ones all poor countries would become rich , as the mediteranean Japan and South Corea had, then the ideas of such as Friedrick Hayec , and Friedman, became those that grabbed peoples minds and part of these is that The Welfare State is unviable economically. One of Friedrich Hayecks ideas is that socialism will always end up as totalitarianism. Clever, clever arguments are always his sign. He forgets that there were two types of totalitarianism,communist and socialist totalitarianism. The well fare state was tremendously successful economically. We found we could educate our people, be a good Daddy to all of them not just some of them. To do so was, should have been a sign of enormouse wealth tthat everyone could seee and remember but it got forgotten, Such a system, by puttign money into infra structure like schooling ,created more wealth in th eocuntries that adopted it.. The Catholics, layones the cupula of the churhc is very politically correct and only talkign to lay members can you get a real idea of where the church is really, these, call Wellfare State countries, materialist ones. Wellfare Stae countries were rich but to call them materialists is to try to make people forget that they were also fairer countries. The well fare state took the main jobs of the religious away from them and the result is that most religions indoctrinate their own against it. Zola wrote in his book ´Germinal´, about a mining village that went on strike and in this book says that the rich thought it was not possible to pay the poor more, these were small mines. Since them the ideas of the left slowly made head way and we paid everyone more and found the money to do so. I reckon that iit is easier for the rich to find money than the poor, they get credit from the bank. Not having more is often just a sign of inefficiency, we can grow more food and build more houses bout we have difficulty managing our rubbish. Hayeck and Friedman argued that for the economy to work you have to help the poor rich who are the ones to have businesses eand so to keep the economy alfoat and give to give people jobs both of which arguments make the poor vote for them. Now we help the poor billionaire, probably to the detriment of even the normally rich and more rich as well as to the poor andn both ot the last believe that to help the rich will help them , though the billionaires are given tax breaks and the rest have to pay more and more in taxes such as vat. th ebillionaires are given tax breaks to encourage them to come to which ever country it is: Not only the poor have been convinced that educating people free is not feasable or looking after their health the moderrately rich have come to believe that socialist cannot have a program that educates people and includes halth care. They have conned everyone. Another of their arguments is that the left take away liberties. supposedly to chose your doctor or your schools. People will go along way to protect their liberty.

[@richernest3359]

Garden picnic of love!

[@rosemacaskie]

I think that women are educated to look after the spiritual well being of their husband so they try to talk to these though often the husband does not talk back: How are you to look after peoples spritual wellfare if you are not talking? I think the message men hear about marriage is that they have to hold the reins of the family and that means they put into place all the mecanisms of a bosses, distance and aloofness: If you talk to an employee they will not do as much work, and they might think they have the right to have a say in how hte business is run. If you talk to people you employ you run hte danger of them coming to think that think you are not as brilliante as a boss should be, so men dont talk to their wives, while a wives role as spiritual careteker forces her to talk even when she is being ignored something a woman is to sensible to do at school for example. This means that marriage is bound to fail, a difference of expectations is built into the fabric of marriage.

[@rosemacaskie]

The English, i believe, did not tae Spanish refugees at the end of the civil war here, That helps to mae us popular in Spain.

[@vaughanosgan2623]

Too many softball questions.....

[@Jon-ey3pf]

Hey, Isabell if you’re saying we don’t need to have walls for the migrants compassion, then if you’re making millions on your books you pay for them we don’t want to so please keep your comments to yourself and what we need to do for our own country

[@susangreifer2320]

She has always rubbed me the wrong way. She lives such a "special" life. She gets so much mileage out of her last name and was bragging on an interview about how vain she is. Seeing how much plastic surgery she has had I believe her. She has nothing new to say and is a real light weight.

[@doody1108]

Great depth, if one looks, is to be found in simplicity.

[@hanforde]

have you actually read any of her books?

[@handroalee]

WTF? Is she wearing blue contact lenses???